OUGD503 SB1 - Disposable Society - Design Research

Infographics

The first aspect of design research will centre itself around infographic style design work and how they convey information due to their nature. They are a great point of research as they go hand in hand with statistics are they are a tried and tested method of which a high level of information can be conveyed to the potential audience and how they achieve this easily through the use of bright visuals that guide the looker to the information much quicker than if they were reading it.

They are always coupled very bright and vibrant colour choices as they help to attract the eye of the potential onlookers by creating and eye-catching depiction of information through visuals that onlookers find it very easy to understand. These info graphical style that has been chosen is most effect because of the fact that rather then focusing on a standard layout in which information comes in large blocks and is assisted with images along the way they instead use the visuals as the main way in which the information is conveyed, making bigger amounts of information much easier to grasp.

Colour

Due to discovering prior to this section that the infographic design style comes with a necessity of bright colours so that it attracts the onlookers it was time to research in to the colours that could be used in the later design process and the connotations that these colours have, and the connotations that will eventually be conveyed to the people at the exhibition.

It was immediately apparent that for the neutrality it would be most appropriate to use black as the colour to represent the forgotten phones in out disposable society and therefore research in to this was un-necessary.

While researching the environment it became apparent me that whenever the environment are anything that it entails such as weather warning or danger problems they are always conveyed through the colour Red, which obviously has its obvious connotations of danger or troubles and so this makes Red the perfect colour to represent the amount of phones that go to landfall each year and to covey how much of a problem this actually is.

The choice for which colour is to be used to represent the phones that are recycled wasn't immediately obvious but then it clicked to me, with its obvious connotation I looked in to the colour free and its place in the role of the environment and world we live in. After some detailed look in to the colour it was very obvious that green was the perfect colour to use as almost everything that pertains to the environment or something centred around this always have green as the feature colour and therefore green would be the perfect colour to use.